Is F# better than C# in scenarios where you need complete parallelism in parts of an application?

Question

Is F# better than C# in scenarios where you need complete parallelism in parts of an application?

My main language is C# and I am writing an app where the core functionality built on top of the app (C#) has to be and planned to be very parallel.

Am I better of implementing these classes in F#?

Answer 1

I'd look at the Parallel Extensions that's being developed by Microsoft.

Answer 2

If you just need to process sets of data in parallel, the ParallelFX are very handy. They'll take a lot of pain out of doing it manually in C#.

But if the code has a lot of asynchronous code, F#'s async monad makes it vastly easier than can be done in C#. If you're looking at a lot of BeginXXX/EndXXX or the dreaded XXXAsync/XXXCompletedEvent code, then F# will be a major win.

Otherwise, you'll just have the general gains of F# over C#.